Women painters from the Renaissance to Early 20th century; Contemporary too

Amelia Hoffman, 18th century landscape painter (included in the book below)

I’ve come across an older book with excellent illustrations placed on the Net on the history of women painters from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. While it evinces older attitudes and prefaces the “problem” that we can find women painters, but they are never as good at painting as men, there are names and pictures here not in my books.

Thank you for telling me of this site. I’ve just tried in several different ways to subscribe to daily emails from Persephone and have been defeated. I don’t know what a RSS feed is, and worry if I say yes to it and their “Outlook” software it will interfere with my present google or gmail. I tried their Persephone Post and even clicked to get the feed through Twitter and Facebook but the software did not like my password and was trying to get me to change it. I did bookmark the site and can see it daily that way.

It is late in France just now but I promise I shall try to subscribe for you tomorrow if your e-mail is the one you use when you write to me off list. If I could do it for me, you certainly can as well or I’ll try for you. The whole week was devoted to this painter Malvina (I can’t remember her name. Do you you want me to transfer the e-mails to you so that you would have all references?

Hi Ellen, Are you still researching landscape painters who are women? I have done a masters on this topic in Australia that I would be happy to share. I would like to extend my research to other parts of the world and would be glad of any information you were willing to share. Perhaps we could even collaborate on a project. Suzi

The answer is I’m still working on women artists; I have not concentrated on landscape but I know that often what I love best in a woman artist is her landscape. The most recent blog-essay I’ve done is of Carrington, and although I don’t write the portrait of her and her work that way you can see how much I (and the others I cite) value her landscapes as expressive of her private-public life.

I have not concentrated on nationalities either though it’s obvious I’m an English reader and speaker and much of what I’ve done comes from what is readily available first in compilations, dictionaries, histories, handbooks of women artists written primarily in English. If you click on the blog where it says “first series” and “second series,” you will see the individuals I’ve covered thus far. It’s Euro- and Anglo-centric. I would love to branch out to Australian women painters; or at least for the third round have two. I like Australian literature very much: I had occasion to read in it by working on a paper on post-colonialism and Anthony Trollope. I’d be willing to share information and within limits collaborate — mainly because each of us lives our lives with projects already in place. Not that mine are endless or cannot be re-configured. Shall I email you?